KOMPAS.com – Parliament German declared the King Thailand Maha Vajiralongkorn will be expelled if proven to run the government from his villa in Bavaria.
For a long time he lived in Europe in the Thai public spotlight amid the raging protests.
Bundestag, the term for parliament Germany, however, said that Vajiralongkorn enjoyed diplomatic immunity during his stay in a villa in Bavaria. But Germany has the power to be able to expel him at any time.
According to a Bundestag Academic Service (WD) assessment commissioned by the socialist Left Party, the German government has little power to expel King of Thailand, despite Vajiralongkorn’s recent threats by Foreign Minister Heiko Maas not to rule his country from German territory.
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The Maas threat was conveyed when protests were raging in Thailand against the king’s undemocratic rule.
More than 50 people were injured in demonstrations that took place in Bangkok last week.
“We have made it clear that policies affecting the Thai state are not carried out from German soil,” said Maas in early October.
However, apart from expelling the king from Germany as persona non grataLaw enforcers cannot represent the Thai people to sue the king, even when he is on vacation, the Bundestag said.
This meant that because of diplomatic immunity, the king could not be convicted of crimes committed in Germany.
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The luxury of the king’s life in the middle lockdown
Vajiralongkorn spent months in his villa on the shores of Lake Starnberg, just south of Munich.
In the spring, the king also often stayed at a luxury hotel in the ski resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
At that time he was proven to have violated the rules of staying at a hotel when the Bavarian state was implementing a policy lockdown territory.
The king briefly returned to Thailand in October, but the left party asked the German government to bar him from re-entering Germany.
“Anyone who (behaves) like a king, brutally suppressing the democracy movement with the military junta, should not be granted a visa for the luxury of an extended stay in Germany,” left party lawmakers Sevim Dagdelen and Heike Hansel said in a joint statement.
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Earlier, in November, the German Foreign Ministry said it had found no evidence that the king had issued a decree from Bavaria that violated human rights, although opposition politicians considered this less credible, given the length of his stay in Germany.
“The question of what the government is doing to fight unlawful acts remains unanswered,” said Margarete Brause of the Greens in a statement.
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